NEWSMAX: In an email sent out over the weekend by the Democratic Party, President Barack Obama urges followers to join him in the effort to enact stricter gun laws.
“We have not gone more than eight days without a mass shooting in this country this year,” Obama begins in the email. “That means that each week, more families are grieving, more communities are being pieced back together. As a nation, we’re holding everyone affected by these heartbreaking events in our prayers.” …
Obama says the issue is not about the Second Amendment, but about “commonsense reform measures” the American people want… (more)
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It’s very good to see Obama focus on gun control. As impossible as that issue is politically, Obama is our best hope to get anything done. And if he could get some rational thought going on gun control, he’d burnish an already stellar legacy.
With the current group of presidential candidates, I don’t see much hope of anything substantial getting done until at least 2020.